If you had to axe 3 of the most popular species from ME:A...

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I didn't vote, partly as it's an incomplete list and partly as I don't want to contribute to the kind of data which can end up being used as justification for paid for dlc.

But ignoring all that, and my morals, the Geth would already have been decommissioned (who in their right minds wants feckin Primes in Andromeda?!? Et tu, Xen?!) so I only have to pick two.

The Asari are the most deserving of sanction after their Milky Way secret-hoarding-self-betterment to the detriment of the other species, both individually and collectively. Pride comes before a fall and all that. They're obviously not without their charms, but as an old school Trekkie I've always preferred my space babes to be green.

Of the others, trying to be as objective as possible, I'd say the Drell have the weakest case for inclusion overall. They are somewhere alongside the Quarians in terms of perceived weakness biologically, but the Quarians have proved themselves to be the true masters of travel and self-sustenance. As such they deserve to be first on the list to stay in the upcoming game, even if Xen is off my poetry list. The Turians are next as they eat the same shit and together provide flexibility and reach, in many ways.

And it should go without saying that we need the Krogans there because it'll take more than a couple of knowledgeable Quarian Female Engineers and Human Cryo Soldiers to show the other massed pyjaks how to make the most of the High Lord Claymore.

Besides indoctrination being a large part of that, Cerberus are considered extremists, being all pro-human, whatever the costs.

The Asari though, the way i see, were doing it out of self-preservation. It was a little bastardly but it's not like the other races would willing give up any advantages they have.

I'd remove drell, quarians and geth as well.

The drell are no core race, imo. They never had more than a "background"-role in the series, they are out.

Geth: I like them, but I can't see a way they could be included sensibly. If the colonists leave before Rannoch, it would be hard to explain why we have geth onboard since they were hostile and later even under reaper control. If we leave after the Rannoch arc, then they could be virtually extinct.

Quarians, their story has been told as well. I also see no use for them at all. Assuming all the travelers on the ark are in stasis pods like Ryder (which could be possible) their knowledge about life on ships would be more or less useless and they don't bring anything else on the table. Why would the council races invite them?

Anyone who realizes we're going into a new and completely unknown galaxy with extremely limited resources and support with the likelyhood of encountering completely alien races and technology and as such could benefit from immortal robots and sentient programs to fly our ships, fire our weapons, upgrade and defend our systems and generally do everything better than us, for us.

So really the question is who wouldn't want Primes in Andromeda?

Most people here just argue for their own preferences, which is fine. But logically, in-universe it'd be holokid levels of moronic to attempt a trip like this without the geth and quarians on ships, habitats and tech and asari and salarians for meatbag needs, if you had a choice in the matter.

You are also assuming those immortal robots will be on our side, or still alive though.

CrutchCricket : Quarian, sure, Geth? No. Outside of a ME3 specific outcome (which isn't going to be accounted for) as far as the Council or ANYONE else in the Milky Way Geth are evil murder robots. Seriously we talk with 1 (well a bunch inside one body) in ME2 and it's cool and all but as far as the galaxy is concerned they dun be evil robits yall.

I can't even begin to figure out how the Council would spin that they have Geth onboard the ARK project. I mean making AI is wildly illegal, entirely because the Geth are galaxy spanning murder robots. Because the Geth exist, because that happened, it's illegal to make AI at all.

Who wouldn't want primes on board the ARK ships? Everyone in the Milky Way except Shepard. Seriously... I don't even see how that could possibly be a question. Anyone wanting Geth in the ARK project is literally just fans wanting Geth. Which I get, they're awesome. But it would make absolutely no sense as to make it hard to take a lot of the game seriously.

edit: Yes I realize Geth aren't actual murder robots, before anyone throws that at me. That's just how the WHOLE Galaxy views them. Call it racism against robots, doesn't matter, they wouldn't make it on the ships.

Right, and it wont be leaving after ME3. They've stated the endings wont have any impact at all on MEA. No green glowy skinned people by there own words. The events of ME3 wont have taken place in MEA. Well, technically they 'will' have taken place but not by the time the ARK stuff launchs.

In fact considering some of the stuff they've mentioned it seems like the ARK project may of even been semi-public. That is to say the reasons for it might not be public but it may of been at least semi-public in it's recruitment as a one way trip to a new galaxy.

Ultimately though considering no outcome from ME3 will be taken into account, that ultimately means the Geth as that's part of it. The Genophage as well. Which probably means any of the Krogan who come along will do it because they just don't want to be part of that galaxy anymore. They're just done with things and want to at least go some place new away from it all. That's probably A LOT of peoples reasons I'd imagine.

Anyway, doesn't leave much room for Geth sadly. Unless they wanted to make a specific outcome from ME3 be canon yet still somehow not have the ending events of ME3 of taken place? Not sure how they'd manage that. Let alone make it public while keeping it from the Reapers. Just doesn't make much sense.

Even if you didn't make peace, Geth intentions are well documented by Shepard's interactions with them in ME2 and 3.

As for the council, please. You forget the asari lead it, more recently famous for going against their own primary rule via the beacon on Thessia. Ditto for the salarians, shifty in general but also right back up to their shenanigans trying to uplift the yahg in secret. Turians might be more sticklers for rules but they're not lawfully stupid either. So yeah, if the geth could be an asset (and there's no arguing they can) you can bet the council would hesitate in covering up or flat out bullshitting "err, these are... new geth, yeah that's right. Did I say geth? I meant VIs. Oh, look a shiny thing!"

Sorry but I think the negative reaction to including them is more fan bias than anything I've said. People are tired of the geth and/or them wanting to be real boys. Fair enough, but don't discount their obvious lore advantage or the possibility of them being included. Even by contrivance, for which there is plenty precedent (killed the rachni queen did you lololol)?

This is kind of a thing I do in some franchises, combine the stengths of individual races or factions to come to a more powerful whole.

So the ideal Ark expedition would be built/outfitted as follows:

Ark construction/engineering: Rachni, geth/quarian, asari (funding)
Ark operation: Geth/quarian, rachni, geth during intergalactic portion of voyage.
Ark organic resource management (living space, food storage/hydroponics): quarians
Ark defenses: geth
Ark Medical/Organic research: Salarians
Ark Technical/Scientific Research: Quarians, salarians
Ark Diplomatic and Organic relations: Asari
Ark Internal Mediation, Psychology and Chaplain services: Asari
Ark Internal Security and Policing: Turian
Ark Officer Corps: Turian

Specific Situational Stuff:

Exploration
Long range scouting and recon: geth (space), geth, salarians (ground)
First Contact: Asari
Data collating and analyzing: qeth, quarians

Combat (Space)
Fleet Command: Turians
Ark Defense Network, including cyberwarfare: geth
Ark Weapons: Any
Ark fighters and support craft: mix of geth and organic,

Combat (ground)
Command: Turians
Scouts, and reconnisance: geth, salarians
Ground forces: Krogan, rachni (depending on numbers available), geth, biotics.
Ground forces (toxic environments) rachni, krogan, geth
Stealth/sabotage: salarians, quarians

There may be stuff I'm missing. I've only listed primary races for each thing, obviously other races could also do some of them. And humans of course could do any of them so it would've been redundant to add them to every line.

Ooh my 3 choices are in the lead. Nice.

Thanks for voting everyone.

Turian, Turian and Turian.





I think Drell can stay (want to see females) though what BioWare should really axe out are Elcor, Volus and Hanar.

And keep the Quarians please